I’ve tried to mirror a svn repository and svk (yes svk and not svn!) told me that the source url is not under source root whatever this means.

An escaped space character caused svk fail the check:

if substr( $source_path, 0, length( $source_root ), '') ne $source_root;

in line 162 in SVNRa.pm.

I fixed this problem while adding a line which replaces %20 by a space character because an URL with the file protocol must not be escaped. These resources are accessed directly from the disk and not from a webserver.

$source_path =~ s/ /%20/g if $source_path =~ m,^file://,;

# XXX: this shouldn't happen. kill this substr
die "source url not under source root"
if substr( $source_path, 0, length( $source_root ), '') ne $source_root;

The following message appears if you try to modify properties (e.g. the log message) while the propchanges hook is not enabled.

Repository has not been enabled to accept revision propchanges;
ask the administrator to create a pre-revprop-change hook

This hook is nothing else than an executable script located in repos/hooks/ that exits with 0 or 1 if defined conditions are not fulfilled. You can remove the file suffix tmpl from pre-revprop-change.tmpl¹ if the template already exists or you create it from the scratch.

For Unix systems the script looks like

#!/bin/sh
exit 0;

and for Windows it’s

@echo off
exit /B 0